Nadine Gordimer Quotes

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Not to decide is to decide.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

There is such a choice of difficulties, that I own myself at a loss how to determine

I find it very hard to make choices.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

Withholding a decision is a decision.

A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.